Impact of a Parenting Program in Liberia to Improve Parenting, Education, and Health Outcomes for Children in Liberia

International Rescue Committee

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pre-academic and Developmental Skills; Malaria Prevention; Parenting Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Parents Make the Difference

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01829815

5108

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of an intervention to improve parenting practices, pre-academic and developmental skills, and use of mosquito nets for children in kindergarten in Liberia. A rigorous impact evaluation using a randomized, waitlist controlled design will be conducted to measure the impact of the intervention on three primary outcomes: positive parenting skills, children's cognitive and educational skills, and malaria knowledge and prevention behaviors.

Enrollment: 270 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents or primary caregivers (age 18 or above) of children ages 3-7 enrolled in kindergarten
• Resident in one of five study sites

Exclusion criteria

• Severe cognitive disability of caregiver affecting ability to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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270 participants in 2 patient groups

"Parents Make the Difference"

Experimental group

Description:

Caregivers are enrolled in the 10-session Parents Make the Difference intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parents Make the Difference

Waitlist Control

Other group

Description:

Caregivers assigned to the control group received the 10-session Parents Make the Difference intervention after the study was completed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parents Make the Difference